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This resource relating to Romans 8:12-17 provides a poem by Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) highlighting the idea that children are not possessions and a poem by Ernest Sandeen (1931-1982) highlighting the adopted nature of a child.
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Revised Common Lectionary
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Englewood Review
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Romans 8:12-17
CLASSIC POEM:
On Children
Kahlil Gibran
And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children.
And he said:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
On the Adoption of Sons
Ernest Sandeen
SNIPPET:
I stand and watch them, feeling awkward and glad
Like any supernumerary Joseph.
They are both kneeling, the woman and the child,
Their heads together. The closed window makes me deaf.
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Romans 8:12-17
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year B Trinity Sunday
Date:
Monday, May 20, 2024